Syrian regime shelling killed four schoolchildren and a man on Tuesday in the rebel-held besieged town of Jisreen east of the capital Damascus, a Britain-based monitor said, AFP reported. "A shell fired by regime troops hit the entrance of a school in Jisreen just as children were...

The U.N. humanitarian chief has called for immediate access to deliver "life-saving assistance" to 50,000 Syrians stranded on the sealed border with Jordan, amid reports of shrinking food supplies. Mark Lowcock told the U.N. Security Council from Jordan late Monday that "access to food...

German police on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old Syrian man suspected of preparing an Islamist terror attack in the country using powerful explosives, prosecutors said. The man, identified only as Yamen A., was held at dawn by special forces in the northeastern town of Schwerin, the...

More than 100,000 people have been detained inside war-torn Syria since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011, according to a London-based NGO.  In a statement on Monday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said some 106,727 people have been held since March...